U.S. Sen. Dick Durbin is recommending a most unusual name for a slot on the U. S. District Court bench in Chicago: the brother of the man he defeated ...
AP/Huffington Post | Posted 05.25.2011
U.S. Rep. Mark Kirk will finally make his long flirtation with a Senate run official Monday, according to numerous local reports. (See full AP story b...
ProPublica | Ben Protess | Posted 05.25.2011
Roland Burris has blamed state lawmakers for his shifting accounts of how he became a Senator. The lawmakers, he said, failed to elicit the full story...
Chicago Sun-Times | Abdon M. Pallasch | Posted 05.25.2011
State Rep. John Fritchey (D-Chicago) said he had no interest in protecting Roland Burris when the now-senator appeared before the Illinois House impea...
AP | DON BABWIN | Posted 05.25.2011
CHICAGO — U.S. Sen. Roland Burris insisted Monday he voluntarily sent state lawmakers an affidavit outlining contacts with ousted Gov. Rod Blago...
AP | RUPA SHENOY | Posted 05.25.2011
CHICAGO — Just as Illinois was moving past the agony and embarrassment of former Gov. Rod Blagojevich's ousting, the fellow Democrat whom Blagoj...
The Huffington Post | Posted 05.25.2011
Gov. Rod Blagojevich's defiant appointment of Roland Burris to the U.S. Senate could wind up hastening his own impeachment, a member of the House impe...
Chicago Public Radio | Posted 05.25.2011
Recent polls show Barack Obama with a 20-30 point lead over John McCain in Illinois. But state Representative Jim Durkin is hopeful the race will nar...
Crain's Chicago Business | Greg Hinz | Posted 05.25.2011